An Evaluation of the Impact of Leading Pedestrian Interval Signals in NYC

Jeremy J. Sze

Hunter College, The City University of New York

Jeremy.Sze@outlook.com

https://jeremysze.github.io

1. Introduction

Leading Pedestrian Interval Signals (LPIs)

  • Pedestrians a few seconds head start
  • 2,689 intersections
  • Director of Signals Timing Engineering to learn about how the LPIs intersections were selected by the DOT
  • Part of NYC's Vision Zero initiative

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Figure 2: Average collisions by intersection type

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NYPD Motor Vehicle Collisions

  • From July 2012 to September 2018
  • Approximately 1.35 million collisions were recorded

Includes:

  • collision outcomes, coordinates, streets, borough, zip code, time, vehicle type, contributing factors

Does not include:

  • socio-demographic characteristics, road characteristics, weather, land-use, vehicle motion prior to the accident

Stratified:

  • 11.00 p.m. to 4.59 a.m.
  • 5.00 a.m. to 10.59 p.m.

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Hypothesis

The introduction of LPIs reduced collisions and injuries

2. Challenges and Solution

Challenges

  • Selectively implemented
  • Phased introduction
  • Unobserved heterogeneity
    • Characteristics of some intersections that make them “more/less dangerous” to road users
  • Spatial autocorrelation
    • Collisions at one intersection could be correlated to collisions at nearby intersections

Identification Strategy

Difference-in-difference (DiD) quasi-experimental research design

$$ y_{it} = \alpha_i + \alpha_t + \beta^{DD}D_{it} + e_{it} $$

where dummies for the cross sectional intersections ($ \alpha_i $) and time periods ($ \alpha_t $), and a treatment dummy ($ D_{it} $). The treatment dummy, $ D_{it} = 1 $ indicates LPIs treatment was implemented at time period ($ t $) and treatment continues for the periods after, otherwise $ D_{it} = 0 $. $ e_{it} $ is the error term that is uncorrelated with $D_{it}$ and $\alpha_t$.

Goodman-Bacon’s general binary treatment difference-in-difference model

  • There are 12,987 intersections ($ i$) and 25 periods ($ t$).
  • Simplifying from 25 quarters, we can think of it as there being 3 different groups
    • untreated group ($ U$)
    • early treatment group ($ k$) that receives treatment at ($ t^*_k$)
    • late treatment group ($ l$) that receives treatment at ($ t^*_l$)
  • Intersections that received the LPIs intervention at a later period after ($ t^*_l$), hence in the periods before that, they act as controls to intersections that had received LPIs intervention at ($ t^*_k$)

A simplfied representation of the model:

$$ \hat{\beta}_{jU}^{2x2} \equiv ( \bar{y}_j^{POST(j)} − \bar{y}_j^{PRE(j)} ) − ( \bar{y}_U^{POST(j)} − \bar{y}_U^{PRE(j)} ), j = k, \ell . $$

My model is an extension to the simplfied model described above, and it is more complicated as it follows LPIs that were implemented across 25 quarters.

Assumptions

  • Unmeasured determinants of the outcomes were time invariant or group invariant
    • $ \alpha_i $ is the group fixed effect, which captures the time-invariant characteristics of the intersections ($i$) such as the design of the intersection, the light conditions of that intersection, and vehicle volumes (busyness of the intersection)
    • $ \alpha_t $ is the time fixed effect which captures the time varying characteristics but group-invariant characteristics, like trends in NYC such as seasons and the increase/decrease in population of the neighborhood
  • Common trends assumption
    • Trends in the control group should closely parallel the trends in the treatment group
  • Timing of the treatment implementation “must be statistically independent of the potential outcomes distributions, conditional on the group-and time-fixed effects
    • Requires that the NYC DOT not change LPIs treatment implementation based on outcomes measured in earlier periods

3. Results

Model Specifications

  • Indicator for when intersections received LPIs intervention
  • Indicator for when Bike route was built
  • Indicator for when Street Improvement was implemented
  • Indicator for when Left Turn intervention was implemented
  • School Zone trends
  • Senior Zone trends
  • Priority Intersections trends
  • Time effects
  • Intersection fixed effects

Naive (No fixed effects)

  • 29.5% increase in number of collisions

No. of collisions

  • 5.30% decrease in number of collisions
  • 5.86% decrease during non late night
  • no effect during late night

No. of persons injured

  • 9.45% decrease in number of persons injured
  • 9.8% decrease during non-late nights
  • 10.5% decrease during late nights

Breakdown of road users injured

LPIs was effective in reducing:

  • Number of pedestrians injured by 13.7%
  • Number of motorists injured by 8.2%

Non-late night:

  • reduced number of pedestrian injured by 14.2%
  • reduced number of motorist injured by 7.5%

But not effective:

  • Number of cyclist injured
  • During late night hours from 5.00 a.m. to 10.59 p.m.

Decay effect

  • 1 year since implementation
  • 2 years or more since implementation
    • Number of collisions
    • Number of persons injured
    • Coefficient test for difference
  • LPIs effect did not decay over time

Extension Spatial Model (Manhattan)

Total Impact:

  • Reduction in number of collisions by 4.2%
  • Reduction in number of persons injured by 10.3%
  • Reduction in number of pedestrians injured by 17.05%
  • Reduction in number of cyclist injured by 16.68%
  • Not effective for motorist

Indirect Impact:

  • Reduction in number of collisions by 0.71%
  • Reduction in number of persons injured by -0.16%.
  • Reduction in number of cyclist injured by -0.98%
  • Not effective for motorist and pedestrians

4. Discussion

Overview

  • Staggered implementation of LPIs in signalized intersections
  • Effective in reducing the number of collisions
  • Effective in reducing the number of pedestrians injured
  • Effective in reducing the numbers of cyclists injured in Manhattan

Late night

With the outcome of number of persons injured in a collision (Table 7)

  • LPIs was significant in the overall, late night and non-late night models

In the breakdown of the road users models (Tables 8 - 10)

  • None of these models were significant in the late night model at the 5% level

Spatial

  • Neighboring intersections with LPIs make drivers slow down at the following intersection
  • OR we could hypothesize that drivers might drive more aggressively to reach the next intersection after the LPIs delays the green light for drivers at one intersection
  • No evidence for the latter hypothesis as the indirect impact on collisions were negative
  • Some evidence of safety effect may be coming vehicles not being able to accelerate to higher speeds

Collisions / Motorist Injured

In the non-spatial model:

  • LPIs intervention was significant in reducing number of collisions and motorist injured

In the spatial model Manhattan only:

  • LPIs intervention was significant in reducing number of collisions
  • LPIs intervention was NOT significant in reducing number of motorist injured

Cyclist

In the non-spatial model

  • LPIs have no impact on number of cyclists injured

In the spatial model Manhattan only:

  • Direct effect at the intersection with LPIs
  • Indirect effect at neighboring intersections

Pedestrians

  • No indirect impact for number of pedestrians injured
  • But we found that LPIs intervention had an indirect impact on number of collisions

5. Economic Analysis

Cost effectiveness

  • Back-of-the-envelope calculations
  • Each LPIs cost \$1,200 in 2017
  • Entire investment for 2,689 intersections was \$3.2 million

Federal Highway Administration report of Crash Cost Estimates by Maximum Police-Reported Injury Severity Within Selected Crash Geometries

  • Mean human capital cost: \$67,342
  • Mean comprehensive cost per crash: \$129,418

Using the predicted values from the persons injured model:

  • 4,609 persons avoided injury at LPIs intersections
  • \$12 million in human capital cost loss avoided

6. Conclusions

The coefficients from the non-spatial fixed effects DiD analysis of:

  • number of collisions, persons and pedestrians injured
  • stayed similar in their magnitude across the different models
  • suggests that results to be fairly robust

  • The LPIs intervention is a very cost effective method of reducing collisions

Future work:

  • Replicating the spatial analysis on the entire New York City data
  • Investigate if LPIs reduces the numbers of motorists injured outside of Manhattan, since it was effective in reducing number of motorist injured in the overall model.

Tables and Figures

Table 1: Collisions counts and averages

Categories 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
A. Collision/Injuries outcomes at Intersections
Collisions 47,611 95,437 94,644 97,792 68,511 78,764 58,942
Injuries of:
Persons 13,336 26,640 24,466 23,160 18,611 22,666 17,513
Pedestrians 3,725 7,555 6,859 6,095 4,821 5,781 3,942
Cyclist 1,355 2,569 2,598 2,597 1,978 2,339 1,766
Motorist 8,250 16,516 15,008 14,468 11,911 14,967 11,706
B. Collision/Injuries counts at Intersections Stratified by LPIs
LPIs Ever == 1 13,068 26,101 25,963 27,244 18,588 20,173 15,034
LPIs Ever == 0 34,543 69,336 68,681 70,548 49,923 58,591 43,908
C. Collision/Injuries averages at Intersections Stratified by LPIs
LPIs Ever == 1 2.43 2.43 2.41 2.53 1.73 1.88 1.86
LPIs Ever == 0 1.68 1.68 1.67 1.71 1.21 1.42 1.42

Table 2: Collisions with longitude and latitude filled


  
2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
Coordinates Filled 85,452 171,917 172,730 182,958 162,745 214,935 157,185
(%) -84.99 -84.39 -83.84 -84.05 -71.44 -93.75 -94.87
Coordinates missing 15,087 31,806 33,296 34,729 65,077 14,327 8,508
(%) -15.01 -15.61 -16.16 -15.95 -28.56 -6.25 -5.13
Total 0 13 60 408 713 825 670

Table 3: Number of LPIs implemented in Quarters and Years


  
2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
Coordinates Filled 85,452 171,917 172,730 182,958 162,745 214,935 157,185
(%) -84.99 -84.39 -83.84 -84.05 -71.44 -93.75 -94.87
Coordinates missing 15,087 31,806 33,296 34,729 65,077 14,327 8,508
(%) -15.01 -15.61 -16.16 -15.95 -28.56 -6.25 -5.13
Total 0 13 60 408 713 825 670

Table 4: Characteristics of the intersections


  
LPIs intersections Control intersections
No. of intersections in New York City 2,689 10,298
School (intersections within 200 feet of school) 201 475
-7.47% -4.61%
Seniors
  (intersections within safe senior zone)
859 1,717
-31.94% -16.67%
Priority Intersection (intersections within 10 ft of signal intersection) 110 109
-4.09% -1.06%

Table 5: Naive regression model - Number of collisions per quarter


  
1 2 3 4 5 6
VARIABLES Poisson OLS Poisson Late night OLS Late night Poisson Non- Late night OLS Non- Late night
Flag LPIs 0.258*** 0.447*** 0.309*** 0.0568*** 0.252*** 0.390***
-0.0253 -0.047 -0.0383 -0.00769 -0.025 -0.0415
Bike route 0.239*** 0.421*** 0.362*** 0.0644*** 0.226*** 0.357***
-0.0219 -0.0412 -0.0301 -0.00594 -0.0216 -0.0363
Street Improvement 0.334*** 0.707*** 0.357*** 0.0772*** 0.332*** 0.630***
-0.0737 -0.182 -0.089 -0.0224 -0.0738 -0.164
Left Turn 0.519*** 1.186*** 0.449*** 0.106*** 0.527*** 1.080***
   -0.0608 -0.176 -0.11 -0.0327 -0.0587 -0.152
Observations 324,675 324,675 324,675 324,675 324,675 324,675
  

Table 6: Fixed effect DiD model - Number of collisions per quarter

1 2 3 4 5 6
VARIABLES Fixed effects
  poisson
Fixed effects
  regression
Fixed effects
  poisson Late night
Fixed effects
  regression Late night
Fixed effects
  poisson Non-Late night
Fixed effects
  regression Non-Late night
Flag LPIs -0.0545*** -0.162*** -0.00245 -0.00039 -0.0604*** -0.161***
-0.0128 -0.0305 -0.0255 -0.00628 -0.013 -0.0279
Bike route 0.0233 0.0521 0.0421 0.0101 0.0217 0.0434
-0.0189 -0.0379 -0.04 -0.00865 -0.0189 -0.0345
Street Improvement -0.0157 -0.209 -0.0133 -0.016 -0.0172 -0.195
-0.0449 -0.148 -0.0661 -0.0234 -0.0458 -0.135
Left Turn -0.140*** -0.806*** -0.133* -0.0683** -0.139*** -0.742***
-0.0369 -0.174 -0.0741 -0.0274 -0.0384 -0.162
Observations 283,550 283,550 242,725 242,725 283,200 283,200
Number of intersection_id 11,342 11,342 9,709 9,709 11,328 11,328
Number of intersection_id 11,342 11,342 9,709 9,709 11,328 11,328
  

Table 7: Fixed effect DiD model - Number of persons injured per quarter

1 2 3 4 5 6
VARIABLES Fixed effects
  poisson
Fixed effects
  regression
Fixed effects
  poisson Late night
Fixed effects
  regression Late night
Fixed effects
  poisson Non-Late night
Fixed effects
  regression Non-Late night
Flag LPIs -0.0993*** -0.0692*** -0.111** -0.0145** -0.0980*** -0.0603***
-0.0213 -0.0134 -0.054 -0.00722 -0.0221 -0.0122
Bike route 0.0169 0.01 -0.00445 -0.000199 0.0193 0.0103
-0.0307 -0.0166 -0.0789 -0.00986 -0.0316 -0.015
Street Improvement -0.0272 -0.041 -0.106 -0.0187 -0.0167 -0.0287
-0.0545 -0.0434 -0.17 -0.028 -0.0557 -0.0388
Left Turn -0.200*** -0.217*** -0.25 -0.0483* -0.193*** -0.185***
-0.066 -0.0623 -0.156 -0.0272 -0.0675 -0.0552
Observations 273,875 273,875 146,725 146,725 272,000 272,000
Number of intersection_id 10,955 10,955 5,869 5,869 10,880 10,880
  
Number of intersection_id 11,342 11,342 9,709 9,709 11,328 11,328
  

Table 8: Fixed effect DiD model - Number of pedestrians injured per quarter

1 2 3 4 5 6
VARIABLES Fixed effects
  poisson
Fixed effects
  regression
Fixed effects
  poisson Late night
Fixed effects
  regression Late night
Fixed effects
  poisson Non-Late night
Fixed effects
  regression Non-Late night
Flag LPIs -0.147*** -0.0337*** -0.0895 -0.00493 -0.153*** -0.0329***
-0.0289 -0.00569 -0.088 -0.00529 -0.0303 -0.00547
Bike route -0.0789* -0.0129* -0.0592 -0.00251 -0.0799* -0.0123*
-0.0419 -0.00749 -0.131 -0.00773 -0.0445 -0.00741
Street Improvement -0.0391 -0.0208 -0.125 -0.00877 -0.0312 -0.0168
-0.0744 -0.0194 -0.236 -0.0159 -0.0849 -0.02
Left Turn -0.302*** -0.147*** -0.199 -0.0198 -0.311*** -0.136***
-0.0718 -0.0264 -0.204 -0.0148 -0.0804 -0.0259
Observations 223,100 223,100 58,475 58,475 218,675 218,675
Number of intersection_id 8,924 8,924 2,339 2,339 8,747 8,747
  
Number of intersection_id 11,342 11,342 9,709 9,709 11,328 11,328
  

Table 9: Fixed effect DiD model - Number of cyclists injured per quarter

1 2 3 4 5 6
VARIABLES Fixed effects
  poisson
Fixed effects
  regression
Fixed effects
  poisson Late night
Fixed effects
  regression Late night
Fixed effects
  poisson Non-Late night
Fixed effects
  regression Non-Late night
Flag LPIs -0.0272 -0.00275 0.0632 0.00269 -0.0376 -0.00357
-0.0418 -0.00431 -0.13 -0.00617 -0.0437 -0.00423
Bike route 0.172*** 0.0157*** 0.0532 0.00229 0.184*** 0.0161***
-0.0643 -0.00585 -0.204 -0.00951 -0.0677 -0.00584
Street Improvement 0.0935 0.00912 0.252 0.0121 0.0788 0.00728
-0.116 -0.0125 -0.33 -0.0163 -0.124 -0.0125
Left Turn -0.206* -0.0309* -0.291 -0.0155 -0.199 -0.0272*
-0.122 -0.0158 -0.339 -0.0186 -0.133 -0.0158
Observations 158,275 158,275 27,575 27,575 152,775 152,775
Number of intersection_id 6,331 6,331 1,103 1,103 6,111 6,111
  
Number of intersection_id 11,342 11,342 9,709 9,709 11,328 11,328
  

Table 10: Fixed effect DiD model - Number of motorists injured per quarter

1 2 3 4 5 6
VARIABLES Fixed effects
  poisson
Fixed effects
  regression
Fixed effects
  poisson Late night
Fixed effects
  regression Late night
Fixed effects
  poisson Non-Late night
Fixed effects
  regression Non-Late night
Flag LPIs -0.0856*** -0.0362*** -0.129* -0.0163* -0.0778** -0.0284***
-0.029 -0.0119 -0.0676 -0.0084 -0.0311 -0.0109
Bike route 0.0359 0.013 0.00446 0.000949 0.0399 0.0127
-0.0419 -0.0149 -0.0974 -0.0118 -0.044 -0.0136
Street Improvement -0.0357 -0.0271 -0.12 -0.0172 -0.0216 -0.0171
-0.0751 -0.0389 -0.219 -0.0322 -0.0758 -0.0337
Left Turn -0.0792 -0.0408 -0.216 -0.0319 -0.0525 -0.0236
-0.103 -0.0518 -0.217 -0.03 -0.107 -0.0461
Observations 254,400 254,400 113,775 113,775 248,025 248,025
Number of intersection_id 10,176 10,176 4,551 4,551 9,921 9,921
  
Number of intersection_id 11,342 11,342 9,709 9,709 11,328 11,328
  

Table 11: Fixed effects DiD Spatial Lag Model of Manhattan Intersections


  
1 2 3 4 5
VARIABLES Number of Collisions Number of Person injured Number of Pedestrians injured Number of Cyclists injured Number of Motorist Injured

  
  Flag LPIs
-0.106*** -0.0643*** -0.0389*** -0.0166*** -0.00897
-0.0377 -0.0176 -0.00894 -0.00569 -0.0137
W.outcome 0.188*** 0.0171** 0.00064 0.0320*** 0.0134*
-0.00628 -0.00709 -0.00714 -0.00705 -0.00713
Impact
Direct -0.106*** -0.064*** -0.039*** -0.017*** -0.009
0.038 0.018 0.009 0.006 0.014
Indirect -0.022*** -0.001** 0 -0.001** 0
0.008 0.001 0 0 0
Total -0.128*** -0.065*** -0.039*** -0.017*** -0.009
0.046 0.018 0.009 0.006 0.014
Observations 68,400 68,400 68,400 68,400 68,400
Number of intersection_id 2,736 2,736 2,736 2,736 2,736
  

Table 12: Fixed effects DiD Spatial Error Model of Manhattan Intersections


  
1 2 3 4 5
VARIABLES Number of Collisions Number of Person injured Number of Pedestrians injured Number of Cyclists injured Number of Motorist Injured
Flag LPIs -0.129*** -0.0644*** -0.0389*** -0.0168*** -0.00893
-0.0387 -0.0176 -0.00894 -0.00572 -0.0138
e.outcome 0.188*** 0.0150** -0.00143 0.0319*** 0.0129*
-0.00639 -0.00713 -0.00718 -0.00707 -0.00714
Observations 68,400 68,400 68,400 68,400 68,400
Number of intersection_id 2,736 2,736 2,736 2,736 2,736
  

Table 13: Fixed effects DiD Non-Spatial Model of Manhattan Intersections

1 2 3 4 5
VARIABLES Number
  of Collisions
Number
  of Person injured
Number
  of Pedestrians injured
Number
  of Cyclists injured
Number
  of Motorist Injured
1.flag_LPIS -0.089 -0.0644*** -0.0389*** -0.0166** -0.00906
-0.0679 -0.0208 -0.0109 -0.00662 -0.0153
bike_route_tv 0.177** 0.0265 -0.011 0.00352 0.0361*
-0.088 -0.025 -0.0128 -0.00735 -0.0189
flag_street_improv -0.453 -0.0712 -0.0457 0.00515 -0.0297
-0.301 -0.0638 -0.0301 -0.0198 -0.0461
flag_left_turn -0.999*** -0.291*** -0.168*** -0.0284 -0.0966
-0.328 -0.0924 -0.0494 -0.025 -0.0604
Observations 68400 68400 68400 68400 68400
R-squared 0.089 0.016 0.015 0.01 0.006
Number of _ID 2736 2736 2736 2736 2736

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